"A homeless man can go to school, get a job driving a truck making $70k per year and in 20 years become a millionaire," he wrote.

"A homeless man can go to school, get a job driving a truck making $70k per year and in 20 years become a millionaire," he wrote.

Arkansas Conservative Stephen Meeks is feeling the burn after telling the world that being poor is a “personal choice.” The Senior Republican Representative took to Twitter last week to remind people that anyone can be a millionaire if they “chose,” according to Raw Story, and the backlash has been ferocious.

“Being poor in America is a personal choice, unless there are mitigating circumstances,” he wrote in a tweet on November 15. “A homeless man can go to school, get a job driving a truck making $70k per year and in 20 years become a millionaire. In America, you can work hard and change your future – if you chose.”

Right away Twitter responded to the comments, slamming Meeks for being “out of touch” and criticizing his math calculations.

“Read your tweet, #StephenMeeks, then read the comments to see if anyone has pointed out the flaws in your hypothesis. Nearly all of them have. In America, you can work hard and still end up homeless thanks to a broken healthcare system & insipid, out of touch #GOP pols like you,” said one Twitter user.

“A person making $70,000 annually would have to save every penny over 20 years in order to be worth 1 million 4 hundred thousand,” pointed out another user. “That means they would have to live without food, shelter, clothing, transportation, Oh, crap, they would have to do without everything.”

The conservative firebrand then went on to tweet about studies involving millionaires and to dispell myths about success in America. He told followers that most millionaires are “self-made” and that it is a myth that wealthy people inherit their money. He also tweeted that discipline is the key to becoming a millionaire.

From the largest study of millionaires:

MYTH: Wealthy people get lucky and make risky investments.

TRUTH: Consistency and discipline through investing in a company-sponsored 401(k) is how most millionaires made it.https://t.co/v5CCVuk4aB